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In reply to the discussion: Can someone tell me what kind of logic this is: [View all]ms liberty
(8,599 posts)57. A tautology, IIRC; which is a fallacy of rhetorical argument.
It could be one of the others, there's a bunch of them, but that is my immediate impression. It's faulty reasoning as well, but did you want a definition or an opinion?
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I'm an atheist. I believe that there are things beyond human understanding, too.
MineralMan
Aug 2017
#4
I don't dispute the event 13.8B years ago or that there is "cosmic background radiation"
virtualobserver
Aug 2017
#74
No, believing that a universe sprang into existence from nothing is the ultimate faith based belief
virtualobserver
Aug 2017
#86
So to be clear, belief in unicorns and disbelief in unicorns are equivalent positions.
Voltaire2
Aug 2017
#76
now *this* is a situation for the undeniably correct usage of phrase "begging the question".
unblock
Aug 2017
#29
Stephen King is right (as usual)....excerpt from The Dark Tower Book 1: The Gunslinger
Moostache
Aug 2017
#53
All religion is a warped response to the emotion/feeling of humility. EOM
Comatose Sphagetti
Aug 2017
#112